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Jack O'Connor and austerity

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  • #52
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    gigino wrote: »
    +1, and well said. Lets drone on about Jack O'Connor instead, woodoo's hero.

    I have a photo of Comrade Jack on the Mantelpiece.

    He earns 124,000 not 200,000


  • #53
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    woodoo wrote: »
    I have a photo of Comrade Jack on the Mantelpiece.

    He earns 124,000 not 200,000

    He gets 125,000 |(actually €124,895) in pay from SIPTU but his pension package and other directorships bring his total renumeration package close to 200k.

    He is a great comrade for you to idolise.


  • #54
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    woodoo wrote: »
    I have a photo of Comrade Jack on the Mantelpiece.

    He earns 124,000 not 200,000

    And this matters how? He should only be earning slightly more than the average wage of those he represents. Oh, I forgot, many of those work in the PS.......


  • #55
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    And this matters how? He should only be earning slightly more than the average wage of those he represents. Oh, I forgot, many of those work in the PS.......

    Most SIPTU members work in the private sector
    There are a few exceptions like SIPTU represent the fire service who outside Dublin are employed by the councils afaik

    I don't know if you mean public or private by PS but either way, SIPTU is the largest private sector union in Ireland

    There are other unions that deal exclusively with the public sector


  • #56
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Before poor Jack can expect to regain any public credibility he needs to get off the fence and take a much more visible role into ongoing investigations to get to the bottom of the murky but lavish financial expenditures of HSE monies by various Union officials (who are STILL being paid by the Union). Financial controls at HQ appear to have the robustness of a Holiday Savings club.

    Hiding behind 'I didn't know' never works.


  • #57
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Before poor Jack can expect to regain any public credibility he needs to get off the fence and take a much more visible role into ongoing investigations to get to the bottom of the murky but lavish financial expenditures of HSE monies by various Union officials (who are STILL being paid by the Union). Financial controls at HQ appear to have the robustness of a Holiday Savings club.

    Hiding behind 'I didn't know' never works.

    Yes. It's up there with "I was only carrying out orders". It's sickening to see the smug head on him while the "Labour" Party:rolleyes: carry out their carving up of this country with their FG overlords.


  • #58
    gigino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭gigino


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    SIPTU is the largest private sector union in Ireland
    not even one in ten private sector workers are in it. Most public sector workers are in unions. Whatever private sector companies pay their employees is ok because the taxpayer ( net contributer to the government) does not pay it. However by doubling the govenment expenditure on public sector wages in the space of 10 years by " social partnership", from 9 billion p.a. to 18 billion p.a. , the unions played a key part in F****g the country. If only they were as concerned that the regulator / central bank / dept of finance done their job properly.


  • #59
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    gigino wrote: »
    not even one in ten private sector workers are in it. Most public sector workers are in unions. Whatever private sector companies pay their employees is ok because the taxpayer ( net contributer to the government) does not pay it. However by doubling the govenment expenditure on public sector wages in the space of 10 years by " social partnership", from 9 billion p.a. to 18 billion p.a. , the unions played a key part in F****g the country. If only they were as concerned that the regulator / central bank / dept of finance done their job properly.

    In a nutshell. In a private company people would be told "there's this much coming in - so this is all we can pay you" We've all been there at some point. It is only a matter of time before the truth hits home in the Public Sector. 80% of the education budget goes on salaries. It is truly GUBU.


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